ミシェル・オバマさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ミシェル・オバマInstagram)「With everything happening so quickly, it can be easy to lose sight of all those who act every day to strengthen and carry forward our democracy. Just last week, the state of Georgia showed the country what can happen when you organize, and strategize, and do the hard and thankless work of progress—when you identify, contact, and re-register voters who’d been illegally purged; when you focus on communities that have been marginalized and ignored; and when you rightly call out a new Jim Crow of voter suppression—when you do all that, you can deliver a Black pastor and a young Jewish man to represent Georgia in the United States Senate. So much of the credit here goes to someone whose name I hope you know by now—@StaceyAbrams. Just two years ago, Stacey lost a close election for governor that included her opponent working to purge voter rolls and deny new voter registrations. What inspires me so much is that she could have become bitter or lost faith in our democracy—but she did just the opposite. She doubled down. She put more of her energy into this imperfect system of ours, making voting more accessible to the people our system had historically left behind. And she was by no means alone—the folks at The New Georgia Project, Black Voters Matter, Mijente, Pro Georgia, and so many others were all leading the charge right alongside her. While many of the events of the past week have left us shaken and bruised, we cannot allow the deeply patriotic example of the Black women who drove Georgia’s record-breaking voter turnout to fade into the background. So let’s celebrate their triumph. And let’s follow their lead in our own communities and our own neighborhoods. This work of strengthening our country takes profound hope, unwavering vigilance—especially when an election is a long way off. But most of all, it takes every single one of us.」1月16日 7時55分